He held her hand, it is true, whilst he talked, but what good is that to a frightened woman whose heart is crying for protection, and whose body is clamouring to be forced into submission?
The words fell upon Leonie's clamouring soul as dismally as the raindrops of your childhood fell upon the window-pane when you were waiting to start for a picnic.
When we left the hut we found an enormous crowd of people all clamouring to know what the Englishman had said.
The Arabs of various tribes, who in peace time had brought their goods to El Obeid to barter and exchange, were now clamouring for the destruction of the town and the slaughter of its inmates.
After this, crackers, with all their accompaniments of paper caps and aprons, and by the time these had been worn and exchanged and torn the youngsters were clamouring for supper.
Above, was the growing light of day; below, the square stone font of immortality, and between them a clamouring crowd, a careless few.
They were clamouring that the execution of Joan of Arc should be soon carried out.
Financially, so low were his affairs that even the turnspits in the palace were clamouring for their unpaid wages.
The train was on the point of starting when one poor thirsty wretch began to cry out most piteously for a drink of water; and in a second all the others were also clamouring for some.
Riveros was in a quandary, for he already had more work on his hands than he knew how to deal with; yet the Chilians resident in the coast ports were clamouring for him to proceed to sea again and hunt down the cruiser.
Even now a great multitude of people has gathered in the theatre clamouring to see you.
Others got into the belfries of the Greek churches and rang the bells violently to summon the crowds, and soon the main streets were packed with excited and clamouring men.
The intolerant and often mischievously active Greek Patriarchate in Constantinople, which denied the Bulgarians the use of their own language, supported the Greeks in clamouring for much more than was their due.
Could you believe that during the trial he went about clamouring in behalf of Moreau?
You are aware of the incessant clamouring raised against me by the whole family, at which I confess I was very much displeased; coming from those whom I had treated so well!
The vicar slowly descended to tackle his spouse, who seemed to have established herself for the morning in his sanctum, though the parish accounts were clamouring to be done, and this morning in the week belonged to them by immemorial usage.
Whereupon the Hungarian, who had been clamouring for it, rushed to its rescue, and there was a mock fight over it.
And then in another instant was that sense of the ridiculous again clamouring to be heard.
A mass of business was waiting, clamouring to be done.
I should never come to an end if I tried to suit these voracious little Oliver Twists, clamouring for more.
Then Lord Baudesert was continually clamouring for his nephew's company, so that Sir Percy's days and evenings were full.
She joined the surging mass, and was swept onward to the public gallery, where the crowd was clamouring at the doors and the doorkeepers were holding them back.
Tut, man; for years you have been clamouring in our ears and raising the people.
Only a quarter of my task is left, but I must make a forced march, for the lawyers are clamouring for their material.
Charles was engaged in repelling an invasion of the Turks, with an anarchical Germany in his rear, seething with fanatical anabaptists, and clamouring for a general council.
Meanwhile the question of Arabi's death was being keenly debated in the Press, and all the Jingo papers were clamouring for his execution, only here and there a feeble voice being raised in protest.
Knollys I know was impressed by what I told him, but Brett, who was a friend of the Rothschilds and other financiers who were clamouring for intervention, proved afterwards one of our bitterest enemies.
Call to her,' groaned Amanda, as they heard their treasured secret betrayed, and the enemy clamouring for further information about this charming trip.
In the dimly lighted office, people were clamouring for tickets, scolding at the delay, or grimly biding their time in corners, with one eye asleep, and the other sharply watching the conductor.
Convinced, at length, of this, after clamouring a little more they marched away in a body, while the prisoner quietly sat down and appeared resigned.
It was one of a large family; and in a short time its relatives gathered round the prisoner, clamouring their condolence in every variety of quacking intonation.
Once more they rose upon the wing, clamouring loudly, but when the harmless bough had drifted by, settled themselves down upon the water as before.
Those rascals are still clamouring for my blood--why I know not--and if they once burst into the house you'll suffer.
A hundred shrill voices seemed clamouring in her ears--"turn back--turn back!
Joan had been raving, madly, incoherently of the past and present, tossing and writhing, now and then clamouring and groaning.
It was not until a quarter to eleven that she understood that the crowds outside were clamouring for Him too, and that knowledge reassured her yet further.
There was not a sound in the room, not a rustle, nor a breathing--even without it seemed as if the world were allowing the supernatural to state its defence uninterruptedly, before summing up and clamouring condemnation.
With his coat off and his sleeves rolled up, he was pushing across the counter steaming mugs of cocoa and piles of buns to the crowd of hungry and clamouring Tommies who besieged his premises.
And don't flaunt it, for if her ladyship sees there's an extra rug of any sort on board she'll be clamouring for it by and by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clamouring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
